Patients are resorting to self-treatment, including pulling their own teeth or using unprescribed antibiotics, due to a severe lack of NHS dental appointments. Healthwatch England found that people in ...

People in urgent need of dental care are resorting to pulling their own teeth out, the patient watchdog has found. Those who experience a broken tooth, abscess or severe tooth pain should be able to ...

I had a tooth pulled last week. A molar. I think it’s the fourth tooth I ever had pulled. I have the worst bleeping teeth. Last time, I ended up with something called “dry socket,” which basically ...

When Bobby Moske went to a community clinic a few years ago with a toothache, he couldn’t find a dentist in Marin County willing to take Medicaid to do a root canal. Marin Community Clinics referred ...

Bobby Moske of San Rafael, California, had to get his tooth pulled after waiting months for authorization for a root canal under Medi-Cal. Now he wants implants, but Medi-Cal won’t cover it. (Loren ...